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Stoneboat wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 18, 2020 1:50 am

One of my cousin's kids is the CP of the Twin Otter and Dash 8 operation for one of the native carriers. He lets this young lady ride the jump seat every time she goes back home to the Arctic.
Couple of nice airplanes in the video. The first pigboat is now doing business as ZK-PBY in NZ.

Brought this film back to mind...

The Snow Walker...

What is this? A Caco-on-steroids thread?

Tis a place to celebrate any of the glories of Canada...

If music be the food of Canadian love then play on.

Brought this film back to mind...

I built a model of the aircraft used in that movie for one of the pilots who flew it.

Here is the unofficial anthem for the city of Montreal, more specifically for the bar scene along Crescent, Stanley and University Streets, between Sherbrooke and Rene Levesque Aves.



No Cohen post would be complete without Hallelujah. Here's my fave version of the song, and yes, she performs barefoot.

That K. D. Lang rendition of the Cohen classic is really good.

Another one with the talented Canadian dueting with Roy Orbison...

Quartette was a 4-member female group from the1990's formed by Sylvia Tyson, ex-wife of Ian Tyson. Originally it included Tyson, Cindy Church, Colleen Peterson and Caitlin Hanford. Peterson died and was replaced by her friend Gwen Swick. I like this song, it has one line that'll jump out at ya:
"Oh the night is a haven for thieves and lovers..."

I think Chantal Kreviazuk is underrated. She started around the same time as Alanis Morrissette, but got left behind in the dust from Morrissette's album Jagged Little Pill.

Stoneboat wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 23, 2020 8:19 pm

Quartette was a 4-member female group from the1990's formed by Sylvia Tyson, ex-wife of Ian Tyson. Originally it included Tyson, Cindy Church, Colleen Peterson and Caitlin Hanford. Peterson died and was replaced by her friend Gwen Swick. I like this song, it has one line that'll jump out at ya:
"Oh the night is a haven for thieves and lovers..."

Never heard that before. Now on my favourites list. Thank you for posting.

Can't have a Canadian music thread without this lady. Boulay's parents used to own a restaurant across the river from here, her and her sister used to sing for the patrons when they were kids.

This guy was done too soon.

Great Vancouver based outfit...

Not Canadian but died there...

Good bloke with many demons within...

Stoneboat wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 20, 2020 3:10 am

Brought this film back to mind...

I built a model of the aircraft used in that movie for one of the pilots who flew it.

Here is the unofficial anthem for the city of Montreal, more specifically for the bar scene along Crescent, Stanley and University Streets, between Sherbrooke and Rene Levesque Aves.

Brilliant song and universal too..

Refueled the R-44 today with a man who had flown in Canada. I realized I know nothing...

Stoneboat wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 23, 2020 8:24 pm

I think Chantal Kreviazuk is underrated. She started around the same time as Alanis Morrissette, but got left behind in the dust from Morrissette's album Jagged Little Pill.

I had never heard of her but even without the music, a girl with a name like Chantal Kreviazuk is worth taking a good look at and (second freudian stutter) and listen to...

I am glad I did. Thank you once again.

Stoneboat wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 23, 2020 8:30 pm

Can't have a Canadian music thread without this lady. Boulay's parents used to own a restaurant across the river from here, her and her sister used to sing for the patrons when they were kids.

Je l'aime bien...

This is for Frere Bernad, a Canadian Marist brother, and also for our Belgian French teacher Mejvrou Van der Walle (her husband, a senior CAA guy in the Congo and then in Cape Town)...

<<Never heard that before. Now on my favourites list. Thank you for posting.>>

Sylvia's getting right up there. Her and Ian hung around with Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and the rest of that New York music scene in the early 1960's.
Tyson wrote this song after hearing Dylan perform Blowing In The Wind. As he said "Hell, if Dylan can write something about wind, so can I." That's a true story by the way, Tyson told it to Jerry Jeff Walker on Walker's show The Texas Connection.



Another Tyson classic. Judy Collins had a hit with it, but I prefer the Suzy Bogguss version.

Superbe...

Not as well known as some of his songs. Written about Sept-Iles (Seven Islands), where I live. Jacques Cartier got it wrong in 1534 when he named it, there are only six islands. The peninsula on the west side of the bay looks like an island from afar. Airtime was a bit restricted, radio stations were unsure about one line:
"Brothers will desert you when you're down and ***** out of luck..."



Another Montreal song.